How to adjust path stroke weight?

I'm unable to adjust the weight of a path. Here's a 40 sec video (no audio, 1920x1080) that demonstrates I know how to adjust the stroke weight on a path, followed by a demo of it not working when I try to adjust it:
http://stephenbuck.org/adobe/il-point-width/point-width.html
Here's what I do in the video:
First, on a path that allows the change:
Select an elipse.
Increase the stroke weight of the elipse.
Control-Z to undo.
Decrease the stroke weight of the elipse.
The above demonstrates I know how to adjust the path weight (at least I think it does).
Next, on the path that doesn't allow the stroke width to be reduced:
Select path.
Increase stroke weight to demonstrate it increases.
Control-Z to undo.
Decrease the stroke weight to .25 to demonstrate it does not reduce in size.
And that's the problem.
What do I need to do to decrease the weight of the path I am trying to adjust?
Thanks,
Buck

Hi Jacob.
Yes, thank you and I've figured out what has happened. The layers panel included a layer titled "Meridians" and a sublayer titled "<Path>". Each item has an effect applied through the appearance panel, and that is what was causing the problem. I had been meatballing only the <Path> item in the layer panel, which is behind the Meridians layer item. Decreasing <Path> was not noticable because the Meridians layer item was the 5 point weight in front of it... I changed each item to contrasting colors, increased the weight of <Path> to 20pt, and then it was apparent that the Meridian layer effect was the item that needed to be resized.
Somewhere in this process I mistakenly applied the same effect to the Layer and the Path, and that's what caused my little dilemma.
Thanks to you and everyone else who participated in researching this problem. It's solved.
Buck

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